I’m so happy to be thirty-eight. I mean really, really happy. Can I list the reasons? Can I praise God with you? Why? Because I never want to feel this bad (last year’s birthday post) again. I want to look forward and celebrate Thirty-Eight Reasons I Love Thirty-Eight! 38. Finally, I think I’ve found a...Continue Reading
Hi.Some things scare me. Things that I feel like an almost-thirty-eight-year-old should really know, but that I still don’t know. Finding new places (with my non-existant sense of direction) scares me. After being a vegetarian for years, correctly cooking meat–and even eggs–scares me. Accessorizing scares me…because no matter what necklace I wear, the necklace ends...Continue Reading
This is a picture that Sam took with my phone of his shoes. It’s appropriate for this post because he (barely) got them on himself this morning. And because he’s standing with the MIA lunchbox. *sigh* Act I…Leaving Home Scene 1… M leaves for work early. Tina has four kids to get out the door...Continue Reading
In five days I will turn thirty-eight years old. Which, besides the drop in collagen and metabolism, isn’t such a bad thing. Finally, after almost four decades, I’m starting to kind of understand balance. Or, at least, understand the constant battle I’m fighting to find balance. At last, I can (sort of) see the benefits...Continue Reading
So, I don’t photoshop pictures…mostly because I don’t even have photoshop on my computer. I do have iPhoto, and I occasionally use it to boost the color or crop my pictures. But this picture? The above one of Catie crabbing in the far, far west end of Galveston Island? The one that’s in my top...Continue Reading
No homework. No books. No backpacks. No check-yes-or-no forms. No tardy bells. No PE shoes. No binders. No Spanish or Music or Art.We’re off to the beach!See you next week…to start it all over again.Continue Reading
Eight of our eight-year-olds favorites….. Number Eight…Walking to school! Who would’ve guessed? Yes, I know it’s only Day Four, and the excitement might wear us out soon, but so far, it’s wonderful. Catie loves the laid back time with me or M. She loves walking right into her classroom. She loves seeing all of her...Continue Reading
Now that school is in full-swing, Nate is lobbying for a new hobby. His summertime hobbies of wrestling with his bubba, playing iPad with his Sissy, and doing everything else with his Cay-Cay have passed now that they all have left him for school.Last week he enthusiastically lobbied for trains. All the time. “Chhooooo! Choooooo!...Continue Reading
Have I mentioned the news about the bus? If you’re a frequent visitor here (or talk to me in person) you know our love-hate relationship with Catie’s school bus. We love it when it comes to pick up our child. We hate it when it passes our neighborhood by. BUT we are embracing this no-bus...Continue Reading
Dear Catie…Happy First Day of Third Grade! You marched right into your classroom and found your desk; you are so ready to start school! You have friends in your class, your teacher seems nice, and you’re one of the big kids in the school. It’s going to be a fantastic year.Love Bug, I know that...Continue Reading
